Goofin’ on Grandma

And I pass on to the next sexy bit of food porn that inevitably fills my inbox.

Given that I’ve been craving a slice of cheesy heaven lately, my curiosity got the better of me and I drug out one of those “best damned pizza in the world” grandma pizza recipes to see what all the fuss was about.

I still didn’t like the idea of just tomatoes and oil, and I wasn’t all that keen on a super thin crust. In my head, I could just see a soggy behemoth coming out of the oven… so I took the idea of it all, and made it something else entirely.

So… what is a Grandma Pizza?

It’s a pie that appears to be widely popular in Queens and Brooklyn. It’s a Sicilian style pizza with a super thin, square crust – Topped with cheese and scattered with seasoned, crushed tomatoes, and baked super fast in a super hot oven. The resulting pie is floppy, cut into squares and often times eaten stacked on top of each other like a sandwich.

It’s odd. It flies against everything I personally like in a pizza, but it has it’s following. I guess it’s kinda like the way we Southerners are about our grits…. savory, buttery, and thick enough to stand a spoon in. I guess if you’re not from Queens or Brooklyn, you really just don’t get it.